If you lost your wallet at Outside Lands, your information is now public
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#2"For instance, using name matching alone, you can clearly identify the full name of a student at University of Central Oklahoma, what state she’s from, where she went to undergrad, and where she shops for gas."
You mean without using Facebook and/or LinkedIn?
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#3I wonder why they included the owner names for the drivers licenses, but not for the passports.
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#4It was nice of you to pixellate the image, but you might want to remove the link, too. "Here's a web site with a bunch of people's private information on it" isn't the kind of thing you generally want to post to a high-traffic web site.
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#5It was nice of you to pixellate the image, but you might want to remove the link, too. "Here's a web site with a bunch of people's private information on it" isn't the kind of thing you generally want to post to a high-traffic web site.
Anyone curious enough to click can just as easily search for "OutsideLands Lost and Found"
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#6> For instance, using name matching alone, you can clearly identify the full name of a student at University of Central Oklahoma, what state she’s from, where she went to undergrad, and where she shops for gas.
...and do what, exactly?
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#7It would be a cool weekend project to scrape this data and do a search for these people's public profiles that have also mentioned the word "lost" or "OutsideLands" and send them a message
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#8"Your information is now public" ... as in, your full name and the fact that you went to Outside Lands and lost something? I don't see what the big deal here is. Coachella had a very similar practice when it came to trying to reunite owners w/ their IDs and credit cards. They are not posting credit card numbers, they are not posting cities... there is nothing identifying at all that would pose any danger to these people in real life that cannot be found on a public LinkedIn or Facebook profile.
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#9> For instance, using name matching alone, you can clearly identify the full name of a student at University of Central Oklahoma, what state she’s from, where she went to undergrad, and where she shops for gas. ...and do what, exactly?
My parents never used to let me use my real name on the internet, even for productive content that I'd choose to take credit for.
The fact that I exist doesn't expose me to pedophiles. Any idiot can buy a copy of the middle school phone directory and see my name, address, and phone number. A pedophile looking for children to molest would get more for his effort in a parked car a block away from school at 3:00 than in my WHOIS records.
I don't use my name on HN because I sometimes play devil's advocate in ways that could be used against me if taken out of context. That's a deliberate choice and specific to this forum. But why does biographical information (in isolation) deserve protection? Can't I go to the University of Central Oklahoma registrar's office and get the full names of thousands and thousands of people who went there, as well as what states they're from?
It's slightly weird for the fact that someone attended Outside Lands to be revealed, and I agree it'd be better to avoid disclosing that, but what exactly is so wrong about that?
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